Richard III awaits reburial
THE judicial review regarding the reinterment of Richard III
must be speeded up, the Dean of Leicester, the Very Revd David
Monteith, said on Tuesday. The review follows a challenge by the
Plantagenet Alliance against the licence granted to the University
of Leicester, which states that any human remains uncovered at the
excavation at Greyfriars should be reinterred in Leicester
Cathedral (
News, 8 February).
Police investigate 'terror
act' in Tipton
THE explosion at a mosque, Kanzul Iman Masjid, in Tipton, last
Friday, which is currently being investigated by the police as an
act of terrorism, was a reminder of the need to "overcome distrust
and hatred between communities", the Bishop of Wolverhampton, the
Rt Revd Clive Gregory, said on Saturday. Faith leaders joined to
issue a statement.
Welby pays tribute to 'exceptional friend and mentor'
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has paid tribute to the former
Bishop of Coventry, the Rt Revd Colin Bennetts, who died on
Wednesday of last week, aged 72. He had been diagnosed with a brain
tumour nearly two years earlier. Archbishop Welby described Bishop
Bennetts, whom he knew from his time as a canon at Coventry
Cathedral, as "an outstanding bishop, a wonderful parish priest,
and an exceptional friend and mentor to a huge number of people".
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Website CharityGiving suspended
THE online-giving website charitygiving.co.uk has been suspended
while the Charity Commission carries out a statutory inquiry into
the Dove Trust, the charity that runs the site. A statement from
the Charity Commission said: "The trustees [of Dove Trust] have not
filed any accounts since the year ending 5 April 2009, and the
Commission has serious concerns about mismanagement in the
administration of the charity by the trustees in relation to the
operation of the online donations portal and risk to charity
funds."
Corrections: A ruling that the words "It's only
rock and roll", and "Finally fell off his perch" were not
appropriate on a memorial in a churchyard was given in the
Consistory Court of the diocese of Lichfield, not Leicester, as we
reported last week (
News, 12 July). The Ven. Christine Hardman is, since retiring
last year, an Archdeacon Emeritus, not Archdeacon of Lewisham &
Greenwich, as we said last week (Synod, 12
July). Our apologies.
